2009 Two Review Poetry Contest Winners Announced (11/20/09)
Judge: Sholeh Wolpé
1st Prize: Art by the Way by Pramila Venkateswaran
Venkateswaran is the author of Thirtha (Yuganta Press, 2002) and Behind Dark Waters (Plain View Press, 2008). A finalist for the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, she has published in Paterson Literary Review, Ariel, Atlanta Review, Prairie Schooner, Long Island Quarterly and other journals. She has presented her poems at the Geraldine R. Dodge Festival and other venues. Her essays on gender and culture have appeared in The Women's Studies Quarterly, Language Crossings, and anthologies of literary criticism. She holds a doctorate from George Washington University and teaches English and Women's Studies at Nassau Community College, New York.
2nd Prize: On Rereading Leaves of Grass by Kimberly O'Connor
O'Connor recently received her MFA from the University of Maryland. Before moving to Washington, DC, where she now lives, she taught high school English in North Carolina and West Virginia. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review and Cloudbank.
3rd Prize: Eating Purple People by April Christiansen
Christiansen is presently working on her MFA in poetry at the University of Arkansas where she now teaches. She received her B.A. in English at the University of Washington. She lives in Fayetteville.
Honorable Mentions:
After Buying the Property by Kelly Madigan Erlandson, Lincoln, Nebraska
How Our Parents Got Us Good by Samantha Thornhill, Brooklyn, New York
Teleology by Rebecca Foust, Ross, California
*All poems to appear in Two Review 2010.
Sholeh Wolpé is a poet, visual artist and playwright. She is the author of Sin – Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad (University of Arkansas Press), The Scar Saloon (Red Hen Press), Rooftops of Tehran (Red Hen Press), Shame (a play in three acts), and has a Poetry CD featuring poems read by the author and set to traditional Persian music (Refuge Studios). She is the associate editor of The Norton Anthology of Modern Literature from the Muslim World (Norton, 2010), the editor of The Atlanta Review – Iran Issue (2010), and her poems, translations, essays and reviews have appeared in scores of literary journals, periodicals and anthologies worldwide, and have been translated into several languages. Wolpé was born in Iran but spent most of her teen years in the Caribbean and Europe, ending up in the U.S. where she pursued Masters degrees in Radio-TV-Film (Northwestern University) and Public Health (Johns Hopkins University). She lives in Los Angeles. Learn more about Wolpé by visiting www.sholehwolpe.com.
Prizes
$100, $50, $25 plus publication.
Submission Guidelines
Send up to five (5) unpublished poems, bio-sketch, SASE, email address, and a $10.00 check made out to Cold Press Publishing to: Two Review Poetry Contest, P.O. Box 200639, Anchorage, Alaska 99520.
Deadline Extended
September 30, 2009 (Postmarked)
Prizes
$100, $50, $25 plus publication.
Submission Guidelines
Send up to five (5) unpublished poems, bio-sketch, SASE, email address, and a $10.00 check made out to Cold Press Publishing to: Two Review Poetry Contest, P.O. Box 200639, Anchorage, Alaska 99520.
Deadline Extended
September 30, 2009 (Postmarked)